40 Uplifting Stories Of Girls Supporting Girls Unexpectedly

how when a drunk guy on transit tried to harass a teen and four of us called out to her saying something along the lines of “oh my gosh is that you?? i havent seen you in ages!! come sit with me!!”

Anytime I've ever been in a bathroom at a bar. Everyone is your best friend. I love it.

This might be cheating a little because technically I participated. But once on a wine trip with some friends we decided to go get tattooed together. (Super small, not matching. Just we all got tattoos at the same time.)

While we were there a little girl, probably about 6 or 7, came in to get her ears pierced while we were waiting. It was her choice and she was super excited, but clearly nervous. We hyped her up and told her she'd be fine. She went back, got them pierced, and we could hear her start to cry a little.

As soon as she walked out we all lost our minds and immediately started praising her. "OH MY GOD, YOU LOOK AMAZING." etc.

Her smile is forever in my brain. She immediately lit up the whole building. So excited to have hit this milestone and be a big girl.

I’m often a solo female traveler, camper, road trip long hauler. OFTEN. Growing up, I had mostly female bullies and antagonists. I’ve got some wonderful BFFs in other women, but I’m as wary of women as I am of men because of my bad experiences with bullies.

But traveling alone has really changed that.

It’s a wonderful little club. Women who were traveling in groups or with their partners/husbands/families would go out of their way to check in on me. Establish friendly conversation, share a meadow report, and get enough of a rapport that it was clearly implied that we could ask each other for help if we needed to. Female Park rangers who did solo travel would make sure I knew how to find the women on duty in the host camps if I needed them.

When i was hiking on my road trip, it was so unexpected. Every woman who saw me was amicable and friendly. While every other solo woman traveler was immediately my ally. I’ve never really experienced camaraderie like that before. It was drunk girl in bar bathroom energy, but the slow, steady, sturdy version of it. It was transformative.

I have a distinct memory… New Year’s Eve in Seoul Korea. My cousin had a few too many tequila shots and we ended up both in the bathroom stall… I was trying to hold her hair back while she was heaving over the toilet. In all the commotion i must have forgotten to lock the door and I kept saying “omg your hair!!!” Randomly an arm pops in with one single black hair elastic. Immediately grabbed it and yelled “thank you!!”

Never did see who gave us the hair elastic.. but felt so proud to be a girl in that moment, I dunno why. Lol… looking back now, must have been the booze that got me all sentimental over a frickin hair elastic.

When I was 16 I lived in the downtown area of my city. I would regularly walk down to the closest 7-11 to get snacks at odd hours of the night. There were several creepy instances I can recall, but this one fits the prompt.

As I walked into the store, a guy was leaning out the window of his car trying to talk to me. I pass by him without engaging him. As I'm waiting in line at the checkout, a woman comes back into the store, after she had previously left, and asked me, clearly, "You drove here, right?"

I was confused, and she pressed, "do you have a car?"
I said I didn't, and she continued to tell me that the guy parked out front had been watching me, and had moved his car to park behind some bushes, and was waiting for me to leave. She offered me a ride and I (stupidly) refused. I took a different route home, though, while face timing a friend. She was a stranger to me, but she looked out for me, and protected me from something that could have been terrible.

This is just in my very personal experience, but I was in a s****y abusive relationship where I had been shouted at, shoved, hit, etc in front of people. The last time it happened, we were in the driveway of my house when he hit me and my (male) roommate's girlfriend opened the front door and screamed at him that she had called the cops and to get the f**k out of there. It allowed me to leave for good, and I'll be forever grateful to her for calling him out.

My mom was being late to pick me up from a place being stuck in traffic jam. It was getting dark and there was almost nobody near me. A girl older than me stayed with me till my mom came. We talked meanwhile. God bless her

My best friend had a very rough divorce. Her husband was messing around with other women while they were in their last few months of their marriage. One of the women felt something was up and didn't believe all the things he told her about my friend, who he was already referring to as his ex. My friend is a townie and she had heard of her and seen her a few times and just couldn't imagine some of the awful things he was saying. She didn't let him get any further, cut him off, and contacted my friend. They had lunch and she told my friend everything. Fast forward about a year and a half, they're now good friends and I hang out with her too. She's a great, solid person. He's long gone. Gotta love it.

my first job I worked at an amusement park and the locker room was huge. we were all young around 15 or 14 and a girl was crying about being dumped. a busy locker room turned into a huddled hugging and counseling session. It was so wholesome looking back as most of us didn't know each other.

One time I was in a really dark and depressive place, so I kind of isolated myself from everyone. Without even telling my friends what was going on, they could sense I was having a hard time, and they left a bottle of wine, flowers, crystals and an individual note from each of them about how much they love me. Makes me tear up while writing this and I’ll still reread those notes when I’m feeling down.

Just the other day I was at an NFL game waiting in line for a drink, this older woman came up behind me and told me how much she liked my outfit and makeup, and how nice I looked. She then proceeded to say how we as women need to compliment each other and raise each other up, I complimented her back and agreed with her. It was a short interaction but definitely was the highlight of my day!

I think we all support each other every day in ways that aren’t noticeable to everyone, so it’s hard to pinpoint it. A personal example where I was the helper was when a woman walked into the bank I worked at to open a secret account her husband wouldn’t know about to save up and move money around to get away from him. I helped her set up the account and make sure she was completely paperless, including not getting any mailers from us at all, then slipped her the information to a women’s center.

One that was done for me was when my fiancé just up and dumped me via text and I had to move. I sold a lot of stuff on Facebook marketplace, and an older lady came to buy something. Asked me why I was selling and I broke down, so she gave me a huge hug and just sat with me for awhile.

I was in a bar my last week of college and a very creepy and abusive ex of mine showed up. Without going into detail he had no reason to be there and it was extremely off putting and he was going out of his way to make it even more uncomfortable. I asked a friend to hit the br with me and told her what was up. Without fail literally all of the seven or so girls in the bathroom, including a girl from the stall lol, were all enthusiastically offering support. I didn’t know any of them other than my friend obviously and to see how quickly they all rallied genuinely made me feel so much better.

I will never stop discreetly telling women if they have a tag sticking out or whatever. I would want to know.

At the gym, some girl was crying because her ex was stood there getting in her face, myself and a few other women noticed so moved closer, he was getting progressively more hostile towards her until he was jabbing at her and shouting. She moved back and we moved in making a little circle around her and got her to the locker room where we stayed with her to calm her down and talked to the gym staff about what happened, we walked her to her car to make sure she was safe and then we left.

1. At the gym where a woman notices you are new and your form is wrong and comes over to ask if she can help. 2. At pilates classes where you’re struggling with the reformer machine and the woman next to you comes over to help. 3. When you faint, and the ladies are quick to offer you medicated oil, buys bottled water for you and offer you sweets to help with blood sugar. Here’s to all the beautiful ladies out there reading this. 

My tiny 15 year old a** deciding that crowd surfing at a Nickelback concert was a good idea. I was dropped and nearly stepped on. I remember a girl putting herself over top of me and pulling me up. Im still grateful for that

lol when my bsf held my prom dress up for me so i could pee, we did this for all the girls in our group. no shame, just genuine girls who want to help each other out.

At a park. There was a man and woman arguing in a car parked by the picnic tables. Another woman was sitting at the tables with a couple of her girlfriends, sort of side eyeing the argument but minding their business about it. Until, the woman tried to get out of the car and the man grabbed her. One of the women got up from the table and walked over to the driver's seat, asked the woman if she needed help or for her to call someone. The man tried to interrupt and she very loudly informed him she was not talkin to him. When she walked away she informed the gentlemen that they could see him, and told the woman to just say the word if she changed her mind.